Craters Manzinus and Schomberger

Stacked image of the far southern Lunar terminator region on 04/01/2016 (~19:00) with the craters Manzinus (top right) and Schomberger (top right).

Telescope: SW 150mm F12 Mak-Cass. With a Baader fringe killer filter.

Mount: SW EQ5 pro with extension pillar.

Camera: Canon EOS 550D in 60 frames/s movie crop mode, ISO 400, exposure 1/60s. I took 3 minute recordings (10800 frames).

Processing: Movies were initially processed in Pipp, keeping the best 2000 frames and decompressing them. The decompressed frames were then passed to Registax aligned using 100 points. The best 90% of the frames (using the Registergraph) were kept and stacked. The final image was enhanced by amplifying the first three wavelets by 80, 20, and 5 respectively. The Gamma was reduced to 0.8. Drizzle 2x was also used.

Comments:

I went back to this region after I completed the first pass of the terminator. The deep shadows really show the relief of the lunar surface. The huge foreshortening effects makes it quite difficult to identify some of the craters.